Scorpio Weekly Digest

Touring Cars, First Blood Drawn

Let’s start where the noise is loudest.

ARL Touring Car Britain. One of the most competitive touring car series in eSports, which mimics the real BTCC series in both format and calendar. Three races. Tough grids. Reverse formats designed to trip you up. The usual touring car shenanigans, where one small mistake turns into positions lost and a dented door.

And then… there’s Charlie Devlin.

Race 1. Wins it.

Race 2. Wins again.

Race 3. Reverse grid. Supposed to be difficult. gets from 8th to 1st within the first 4 minutes of the race and wins that as well.

Three races. Three wins.

No one has done that before in this championship. It simply doesn’t happen here. The format is built to stop it. Charlie ignored that completely. Calm, precise, and just quicker when it mattered. If you’re looking for a statement drive, that’s it.

Elsewhere in Pro, it was a tougher day.

Timothy Friis Larsen kept things steady. Started from the pit lane after a mistake with a fuel load, went from 29th to P7 in class in race 1, then finished P8 in race 2, P6 in race 3. Not spectacular, but solid points in a field where consistency still matters.

Reece Wills never really got started. Steering wheel issues ended his day before it began. DNF, DNS, DNS. One of those rounds you just write off and move on.

In Pro-Am, Ryan Stringer did what he tends to do. Quiet progress. P5, P6, P7. No drama, no headlines, just points stacked one after another.

Then the Am class, where things got interesting.

Alexander Strobel went for wins and got them. P1 in Race 1, P1 again in Race 3, with a P5 in between. That’s tough, as he was leading in race 2 as well but got taken out. Praise for knowing when to push and when to take what’s there.

Lucas Chadderton had a rougher run. P8 to start, then a DNF, then back to P9. A weekend of recovery more than attack.

Put it all together, and it’s a strong round.

Scorpio eSports now moves up to P2 in the team standings. First season in touring cars, and already right in the fight. No easing into it. Straight into a title chase.

And with performances like Devlin’s… you start to wonder how far this can go.

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Super Formula Top Split: Fuji Belongs to Larsen

This is not your average race lobby. This is Top Split Super Formula on iRacing. The official top split in iRacing, where only the best of the best compete, based by iRating (iRacing's internal ranking system). The sharp end. The place where everyone is fast, everyone knows what they’re doing, and mistakes are usually punished before you even realise you made one. You don’t stumble into wins here.

And yet, at Fuji, Timothy Friis Larsen made it look almost… unfair.

Controlling the race from the start, he had the pace, the rhythm, the kind of confidence that lets you drive your own race while everyone else is reacting. And then there’s the detail that really stands out. He set the fastest lap by a full second. In top split.

That’s a strong statement to say the least. That’s the sort of margin you see when someone is operating on a completely different level, not just finding time here and there, but taking it everywhere. Braking later. Carrying more speed. Getting on the power sooner. Lap after lap, like it’s routine. And the championship table reflects it.

Larsen now sits on 105 points.

Second place, Kevin Foster, has 46.

That is some margin after just 5 rounds. The kind you usually only see at the end of a season, not in the middle of one.

You don’t do this by being a “good” driver. Good drivers win races. Great drivers win championships. But this? This is what it looks like when someone is simply better than everyone else in the room.

At some point, the conversation has to change. It’s no longer about whether Larsen can win in these conditions. He already is. Repeatedly. The real question is why he’s still doing it here. Because performances like this don’t belong in the background. They don’t stay in sim racing forever. They force decisions. And maybe… that decision is getting closer. It might be time to put Timothy Friis Larsen into real Scorpio machinery.

Stay tuned.

6 Hours of Road Atlanta: One Step Closer

Six hours is a long time to get things wrong. Traffic. Fatigue. Strategy calls that look smart until they aren’t. You don’t just win endurance races on pace alone. You win them by staying sharp when it gets messy, by keeping the car clean when others don’t, and by trusting the people around you.

At Road Atlanta, Scorpio got it right. Alex Strobel and Tobias Matheson, the 15-year-old newcomer who’s already starting to look very comfortable in big machinery, took on the race in the Porsche 963 GTP. Not an easy car. Not a forgiving one. Fast, yes. But it demands respect every single lap. Behind the scenes, James Whitehead handled engineering. And on the radio, Ryan Stringer as spotter, guiding, warning, keeping things tidy when traffic closed in.

It all came together. By the end of it, they weren’t just leading. They were gone. Won by over a lap clear of second place. That kind of gap doesn’t come from one moment. It builds slowly. A tenth here. A smart pit call there. Staying out of trouble when others fall into it. You look up after six hours and suddenly the margin is enormous.

Yes, it was Split 16. Let’s not pretend otherwise. But here’s the reality. Nobody starts at the top. You don’t jump straight into top split and dominate. You earn your way there, race by race, stint by stint, learning how to win before you learn how to fight the very best. This is what that process looks like. And it matters. Because what Alex has done here goes beyond just driving. He put this together. Organised it. Made it happen. Pushed the team to show up, to commit, to take it seriously. That kind of effort is what builds something long-term. Tobias stepped in and delivered. No hesitation. Just pace and focus.

And if you watch closely, you can already see where this is heading. Today, it’s Split 16. Tomorrow, it’s higher. Then higher again. Eventually, it’s top split. Because drivers who win like this, who work like this, who keep showing up and improving… they don’t stay in the same place for long. They climb. And this felt like the beginning of that climb.

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Lucas Chadderton: The Quiet Work Pays Off

You’ve seen this type before. Maybe you’ve been this type. The one who doesn’t say much. Doesn’t flood the chat. Doesn’t make noise after a good lap or excuses after a bad one. Just… there. Listening. Watching. Working. That’s Lucas Chadderton. If you look at his profile on Scorpio eSport, you’ll see the basics. Young driver. Committed. Part of the programme. All true. But it doesn’t really tell you how he operates day to day. Because the real story happens in the background. Quiet in public. Persistent in private. My DMs? Not quiet. Questions about data. Questions about setups. Questions about strategy. Then he goes away. No fuss. No announcement. Just work, and work, and work.

And it didn’t start pretty. When we brought Lucas in, he was struggling. Not fighting for points. Not even midfield. Just trying not to finish last. That’s where it began. And for a lot of drivers, that’s where it stays. But not when the mindset is right. Because there’s something very hard to stop about someone who just refuses to give up. No complaints, no search for shortcuts. Just work and repetition. Lap after lap, session after session, slowly turning confusion into understanding.

And then, eventually, something clicks. Final round of the JWB British Formula Ford Series. To say that Lucas just simply improved would be an understatement. He won. Not by a nose. Not by luck. By 20 seconds. Think about that for a second. In a series where gaps are usually tight, where one mistake costs you everything, he drove away from the field like he was on a different track entirely. That doesn’t happen overnight. That’s built. Quietly. Piece by piece. He finished the series with a win, and that’s important for confidence going forward.

Races like this matter more than they look on paper. Because they prove something simple. Something people love to doubt. With enough determination, and the right support around you, progress is not optional. It’s inevitable. Lucas is still the same person. Still quiet. Still asking questions. Still working. But now, there’s a result to match it. And this is only the beginning.

Keep going, Lucas. We’re right behind you.

Ryan Stringer: From Outside Looking In to Right in the Fight

Sport can be brutal like that. One week, you’re not even on the grid. Watching. Waiting. Wondering where you fit. Next thing you know, you’re fighting for a place among the best.

That’s the road Ryan Stringer has taken in the European Radical qualifiers. He didn’t even make Round 1. Didn’t have the iRating. Didn’t have the entry. Simple as that. That’s just reality. And for some drivers, that’s where the story fades out before it ever really starts. Read full story in the latest issue of Scorpio Insider.

But Ryan stayed with it. Worked his way in. Built the rating. Got himself onto the grid. And then, step by step, started turning up where it matters. Consistently improving, the way drivers do when they know exactly what they’re chasing. Prior to Silverstone, Ryan was on a podium 4 races in a row and sitting 8th in the standings, but only 7 proceed to the finals…

Then came Silverstone. And this is where it shifted. 3rd win and 6th podium in a row. Those results didn’t just look good on paper, they moved him where it matters most. Up to 6th in the standings. Inside the top seven. Inside the cut for the Radicals Grand Finals.

Three rounds to go. Now picture that for a second. From missing the opening rounds entirely… to sitting in a qualifying position with the finish line in sight. You can’t call that luck. That’s persistence paying you back, one result at a time.

Yes, there’s still work to do. Nothing is guaranteed in a field like this. One bad round and it tightens again. But Ryan has put himself exactly where you want to be at this stage of a season. In control of his own outcome.

Alongside what we’ve seen from Lucas, it says something bigger about this team. These drivers don’t fold when it’s difficult. They don’t disappear when things go wrong. They build. Quietly and relentlessly.

And now Ryan Stringer is three rounds away from turning a missed opportunity into a place on the world stage. That’s a story worth watching.

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Reece Wills: One Step from the Real Thing

Some competitions hand you a trophy. Others hand you a door. The Duckhams Yuasa Racing “From Sim to Reality” programme is very much the second kind.

It’s a structured pathway designed to take sim racers out of their rigs and put them into real race cars. Proper ones. With backing, exposure, and a genuine shot at building something beyond the screen. The format is simple on paper, ruthless in practice. Thousands enter. Only a handful progress.

Drivers go through multiple stages. Online qualifiers to prove raw pace and consistency. Then deeper evaluations. Racecraft. Decision-making. Pressure handling. Eventually, the best are brought into semi-finals and finals, where the gap between sim racing and real-world expectation starts to shrink very quickly.

And the reward?

A fully supported drive. Real racing. Real circuits. Real competition. The kind of opportunity that usually takes years, money, and connections to even sniff.

Now here’s where Reece Wills comes in. He delivered. In the semi-finals, Reece finished 2nd. Let that sit for a moment. In a field stacked with drivers all chasing the same narrow path, a 15 year old placed himself right at the front. Not scraping through. Not relying on luck. Properly, convincingly, there. And now? He’s one step away.

One final push from securing a seat at Daytona Milton Keynes, lining up against some of the UK’s strongest racing talent:

• Dan Cammish - BTCC race winner

• Adam Smalley - GT World Challenge race winner

• Jacob Tofts - Porsche Carrera Cup GB front runner

• Ian Gough - British GT race winner

  
  

That’s not a casual amateur rental-karting grid. That’s a serious room. The kind where you either belong, or you get found out quickly. Reece is about to find out which one it is. And here’s the part that makes it personal.

Daytona Milton Keynes.

That’s where my own racing journey began. Same place. Same kind of nerves. Same quiet moment before everything starts, when you realise this might actually become something real.

Funny how things come around.

Because now, that same place could be where Reece Wills begins his.

One more step.

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Written by Ivan Taranov